"In an announcement being billed as Clinton’s first project since leaving the government, the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and the California-based Next Generation organization are undertaking a campaign called “Too Small to Fail.”...
"The video features, among other people, Jack Shonkoff, a Harvard University pediatrician and researcher whom New Republic readers may recognize from the article, “The Two Year Window.” Shonkoff chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and is one of a handful of key researchers who have developed and publicized the concept of “toxic stress”—the idea that adverse experiences in very early childhood can alter brain development in ways that are very difficult to reverse, putting kids at much greater risk of intellectual, emotional, and cognitive problems later in life. Citing that research, Shonkoff and his many collaborators have been on a crusade to reduce (and, ideally, eliminate) the number of children subject to such conditions...."
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